Definitions

1. Physicists were reluctant to identify these objects with quarks at the time, instead calling them " partons "—a term coined by Richard Feynman. (Web site)
2. Physicists are still far from understanding why a proton has about 2,000 times more mass than an electron. (Web site)
3. Physicists are searching for a grand unified theory that would unite all four of the forces, currently only those included in the standard model are united. (Web site)
4. Physicists are also concerned with the N axis, which gives the number of neutrons in the nucleus. (Web site)
5. Physicists are getting closer and closer to the holy grail of research into ultracold atomic gases - the observation of superfluidity in a Fermi gas. (Web site)

Elementary Particles

1. The physicists found many (1000) new elementary particles in accelerators.
2. Since atoms were found to be actually divisible, physicists later invented the term " elementary particles " to describe indivisible particles.

Higgs Particle

1. The problem for physicists is that without the Higgs particle they don't have a viable theory of matter. (Web site)

Existence

1. The quest to discover the nature of the nucleus has occupied generations of physicists since Rutherford discovered its existence in 1911. (Web site)
2. Physicists did not predict its existence because Y(4140) appears to flout nature's known rules for fitting quarks and antiquarks together. (Web site)
3. Theoretical physicists were troubled by the existence of five separate string theories. (Web site)

Physicists Call

1. But when they don�t cancel out, physicists call this a �false� vacuum, which contains more energy than a classical vacuum.
2. Physicists call the study of solids solid state physics.
3. Physicists call this principle the law of conservation of baryons. (Web site)

Reason

1. The reason that I don't like the particle data stuff is because what most physicists call the "Higgs mechanism" is not that. (Web site)
2. The reason for this drift has eluded physicists who have dedicated their careers to the SI unit of mass.
3. For this reason, physicists have theorized many possible extensions to the Standard Model.

Properties

1. Nevertheless, physicists do study the properties of unbound, or unstable isotopes of nuclei. (Web site)
2. By studying the manner in which this decay occurs, physicists gain insight into the properties of the atomic nucleus.
3. Most physicists take the fundamental constants of nature as given properties of the Universe.

Graviton

1. Graviton - Physicists believe that graviton—which has not yet been proven to exist—is the particle carrier of the gravitational force.
2. Physicists have already named this particle the graviton but have not found one yet. (Web site)
3. Physicists call a quantum of gravitational energy a graviton.

Photon

1. Physicists say that a photon "sometimes acts like a wave and sometimes acts as a particle.
2. The above description of a photon as a carrier of electromagnetic radiation is commonly used by physicists. (Web site)
3. Although Lewis' theory was never accepted - being contradicted by many experiments - his new name, photon, was adopted immediately by most physicists.

Particle Accelerators

1. Particle accelerators allow physicists to study the movement of particles in extreme conditions.
2. Some physicists temporarily work away from home at national or international facilities with unique equipment, such as particle accelerators. (Web site)
3. Physicists already make use of this energy in machines called particle accelerators. (Web site)

Experiments

1. Experiments have since convinced physicists that not only do quarks exist, but there are six of them, not three. (Web site)
2. This should result in new particles of higher mass than any previous experiments have achieved, allowing the physicists to test their ideas.
3. Physicists design and perform experiments with lasers, particle accelerators, electron microscopes, mass spectrometers, and other equipment.

Interest

1. Magnetochemistry is a highly interdisciplinary field that attracts the interest of chemists, physicists and material scientists. (Web site)
2. Nonlinear equations and functions are of interest to physicists and mathematicians because most physical systems are inherently nonlinear in nature. (Web site)
3. Physicists with an interest in general aspects of gauge theory will also find the book highly useful.

Philosophers

1. This unique monograph should attract physicists as well as philosophers of science working in the foundations of quantum physics.
2. Finally, the very size of the conversion factor opened a magnificent field of speculation to philosophers, physicists, engineers, and comic-strip artists. (Web site)
3. This has prompted many philosophers and physicists to treat general relativity as a gauge theory, and diffeomorphisms as gauge transformations. (Web site)

General Relativity

1. The 5D Spacetime Consortium - We are a group of physicists and astronomers working on a 5-dimensional version of general relativity. (Web site)

Gravity

1. Traditionally, physicists have counted four interactions: gravity, electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force and the strong nuclear force. (Web site)
2. The mass that responds to gravity is referred to by physicists as "gravitational mass". (Web site)
3. At the subatomic scale, where the universe is jumpy and discontinuous, physicists don't know how gravity behaves. (Web site)

Interactions

1. The apparent irreducible nature of these interactions leads physicists to study the properties of these forces in great detail.
2. From the information gathered in the detectors, physicists can determine properties of the particles and their interactions.
3. Yet it has a number of weaknesses that lead physicists to search for a more complete theory of subatomic particles and their interactions. (Web site)

Neutrinos

1. Both neutrinos and antineutrinos have no electric charge or color charge, but physicists still consider them distinct from one another. (Web site)
2. On the cover: Deep underground, physicists set traps to catch dark matter, neutrinos, rare particle decays, and other exotic phenomena.

Proton

1. Often, nuclear physicists will use Nuclear Units where ħ, c, and the mass of the proton m p have been set to unity.

Protons

1. Physicists hope to use the most energetic jets to look inside the quarks that make up protons.

Neutron

1. This year, the physicists ran another series of experiments, slamming deuterons, smaller particles of one proton and one neutron, into gold nuclei. (Web site)
2. The neutron and the proton are regarded by physicists as two aspects or states of a single entity, the nucleon.
3. Physicists soon found that the neutron made an ideal "bullet" for bombarding other nuclei. (Web site)

Neutrons

1. Later physicists showed that the nucleus was composed of neutrons and protons. (Web site)
2. By 1971, physicists had demonstrated that these particles were much smaller than protons and neutrons. (Web site)
3. There are even smaller particles that make up the protons and neutrons that physicists are studying every day. (Web site)

Virtual Particles

1. Virtual particles are a language invented by physicists in order to talk about processes in terms of the Feynman diagrams.
2. After all, physicists tell us that empty space is a swirling chaos of virtual particles.

Quantum Field Theory

1. One reason that physicists explored supersymmetry is because it offers an extension to the more familiar symmetries of quantum field theory.
2. Quantum field theory is a set of basic ideas that physicists use to explain the laws of nature.
3. Atomic physicists, who generally deal with only nonrelativistic electrons and nuclei, must use quantum field theory for the electromagnetic field. (Web site)

Time

1. At the time, the pair of physicists ascribed various properties and values to the three new proposed particles, such as electric charge and spin. (Web site)
2. Up until this time, matrices were seldom used by physicists; they were considered to belong to the realm of pure mathematics. (Web site)
3. As the 19th century approached its end, the physicists of the time felt that physics was almost a completed subject.

Big Bang

1. Physicists think that in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang, equal numbers of particles and antiparticles existed.
2. Physicists will use the LHC to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, by colliding the two beams head-on at very high energy.
3. A friend told Penzias that two physicists at nearby Princeton, NJ, were searching for the radiation George Gamow predicted still existed from the Big Bang. (Web site)

Scientists

1. Some particle physicists adhere to reductionism, a point of view that has been criticized and defended by philosophers and scientists.
2. Using this mechanism, which two Belgian physicists simultaneously posited, scientists were able to extrapolate how all particles get their mass. (Web site)
3. Famous Physicists and Astronomers has short biographical on an assortment of these scientists.

Manhattan Project

1. And you're also talking to physicists like Robert Oppenheimer [senior scientist on the Manhattan project]. (Web site)
2. World renowned British physicist Dyson did not work on the Manhattan Project but did later come to know many of the physicists who did. (Web site)
3. They are the physicists and engineers of the Manhattan Project, a top-secret effort to build a new kind of bomb.

Time Travel

1. Most physicists believe that it does, largely because assuming some principle against time travel prevents paradoxical situations from occurring.

Parallel Universes

1. Most science fiction writers, and later, physicists, use the concept of parallel universes to avoid the paradoxes of time travel. (Web site)
2. I had heard about the concept of parallel universes from Quantum Physicists but didn't find any practical value in the concept.

Nobel Prizes

1. Most physicists agree that three of those papers (on Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect, and special relativity) deserved Nobel Prizes. (Web site)

Oceanographers

1. Researchers include biologists, geologists, oceanographers, physicists, astronomers, glaciologists, and meteorologists. (Web site)

Electron

1. Other physicists found that these properties may be interpreted by stating that the electron has a "spin", i.e.
2. Physicists know that the charge on an electron is the fundamental unit of electric charge.
3. The only problem with that is that physicists calculated that the electron would eventually crash into the nucleus.

Possibility

1. At the time of this request in 1939, most American physicists doubted that atomic energy or atomic bombs were a possibility.
2. While physicists at accelerators are trying to understand possibility (a), if AMS sees antimatter nuclei, it would prove possibility (b).
3. This possibility (of a chain reaction) has been ruled out by other nuclear physicists since then. (Web site)

Atom

1. Recognition of the nature of radioactive emissions enabled physicists to penetrate more deeply into the atom, which was found to consist mostly of space. (Web site)
2. Therefore, chemists and physicists need to create models to aid in the description of the atom.
3. Particle Physicists are the men and women who spend their lives studying the physics of very small particles, smaller than an atom. (Web site)

Fermi

1. It seemed inconceivable to Fermi and physicists of the time that the nucleus wasn’t a stable unit.

Photons

1. But physicists think that a theory combining quantum mechanics and gravity will show that spacetime is made up of pieces, like light is made of photons. (Web site)

Mathematics

1. Kähler geometry is a beautiful and intriguing area of mathematics, of substantial research interest to both mathematicians and physicists.
2. Physicists who are articulate in the language of mathematics have made the greatest contributions to the modern formulations of physics. (Web site)
3. This should alert one to the possibility of other conceptual limits in the mathematics used by physicists.

Complex Geometry

1. This book is intended for mathematicians and physicists with some background in Lie groups and complex geometry. (Web site)
2. Complex geometry is also becoming a stimulating and useful tool for theoretical physicists working in string theory and conformal field theory. (Web site)

Computer Scientists

1. Geneticists need to talk to chemists, physiologists to physicists, cell biologists to computer scientists.

Electrical Engineers

1. The vector field is known among electrical engineers as magnetic flux density or magnetic induction or simply magnetic field, as used by physicists.
2. For this reason, F-D statistics are well-known not only to physicists, but also to electrical engineers.

Nature

1. However, most particle physicists believe that it is an incomplete description of Nature, and that a more fundamental theory awaits discovery. (Web site)
2. Historically, nuclear physicists have studied the structure, characteristics, and behavior of the atomic nucleus and the nature of the nuclear force. (Web site)
3. The laws of physics cannot describe infinite quantities and, in fact, physicists believe that infinities do not exist in nature. (Web site)

Four Fundamental Interactions

1. Traditionally, modern physicists have counted four fundamental interactions: gravitation, electromagnetism, the weak interaction, and the strong interaction. (Web site)

Chemical Engineers

1. Solid-state physicists began to talk seriously with biologists, neuroscientists with chemical engineers, and meteorologists with psychologists.

Molecular Biologists

1. Readership: Chemists, biochemists, molecular biologists and physicists.

Materials Scientists

1. For physicists, chemists and materials scientists with an interest in metal-cluster compounds and their physical properties.
2. The information presented is for a group of occupations: Metallurgists, Physicists, Meteorologists and Materials Scientists.

Federal Government

1. Scientific research and development services firms and the Federal Government employ over half of all physicists and astronomers.
2. The average annual salary for physicists employed by the Federal Government was $104,917 in 2005; for astronomy and space scientists, it was $110,195. (Web site)

Planck

1. Experimental Foundation of CPH Theory Many physicists, such as Faraday and Planck noted the great similarities between electric fields and gravity. (Web site)
2. Physicists had difficulty explaining it until Planck introduced his quantum of action. (Web site)
3. Great physicists like Galileo, Huygens, Maxwell, Einstein, Planck, Heisenberg and Feynman are omitted since they did little pure mathematics.

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